PLAYER57832 wrote:Small oppression does matter. It sets the stage for the big stuff.

That is entirely contextual and there's no inherent truth to it.

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So because one ultra-oppressive state failed that means all forms of oppression, no matter how minor, will also fail. Wut. What about Rome, Ancient China, pre-modern USA - they were all oppressive and yet they did extremely well for ...

Homosexual example: no you shouldn't care about what other people have the "right" to do. You are not them, therefore you cannot speak for them. If they a problem dealing with discrimination, it's up to them to solve it. Game over, insert coin to continue.
Yeah, pretty much what a lot of people ...

Homosexual example: no you shouldn't care about what other people have the "right" to do. You are not them, therefore you cannot speak for them. If they a problem dealing with discrimination, it's up to them to solve it. Game over, insert coin to continue.
Yeah, pretty much what a lot of people ...

I can't actually vote in the poll, because I believe that the skyrocketing divorce rate is a result of "secularization", that is, society turning away from God, but government doesn't have a lot to do with it.

Edit: inb4 -- and yes, the divorce rate among "Christians" is little or no better ...

It is a bad thing to any rational person. Our current lifestyle is not sustainable without immigration, and we can't always count on being rich enough for immigrants to want to come and keep us afloat. SO basically our culture is a suicidal one, where present day people live hedonistic lives of ...

LOL.

Nazis didn't come to power until 1933 and by 1943 discrimination was the LEAST of Germany's problems

from what i have heard, there was a european holocaust that was run by the germans during world war 2 (so it was going on during 1943).

it was so serious that in europe they still arrest ...

It is a bad thing to any rational person. Our current lifestyle is not sustainable without immigration, and we can't always count on being rich enough for immigrants to want to come and keep us afloat. SO basically our culture is a suicidal one, where present day people live hedonistic lives of ...

Teacher's get ridiculous benefits and practically all are incompetent. Not to mention that a higher percentage of teachers are pedophiles than even Catholic priests.

Oh yeah and education system is inefficient as hell. Students go through 12 years of grade school, yet most end up in no-skill jobs ...

Homosexual example: no you shouldn't care about what other people have the "right" to do. You are not them, therefore you cannot speak for them. If they a problem dealing with discrimination, it's up to them to solve it. Game over, insert coin to continue.
Yeah, pretty much what a lot of people ...

what do you propose to do about this fairness?

Nothing; its fine and dandy as it is. But it is the fundamental reason why I support some aspects of socialism/left wing politics such as government provisioning of healthcare, education, and some other things.


Welfare doesn't go to hard working ...

No-fault divorce destroyed the Afro-American family unit in the 60's. Now the majority of black kids grow up in broken homes. If you think marriage is all fine and dandy, chances are you're a disgusting racist.

Arguably the smart are pretty well subsidised too PS.

Joe senior analyst likely works just as hard as Joe after-hours cleaner in terms of energy expanded on their job.

Is that all that counts? how much energy you put in at work?
Ok to put it another way; Joe Cleaner is the best mother fucking ...

"Rights issues", by which you probably mean institutionalized discrimination, can affect the population in a significant way, therefore your reasoning is flawed.

Isn't that what this thread is about? Institutionalized discrimination.

Key word is significant. Population affected in this case ...

If you ignore abuse untill it targets your particular subgroup it is likely the abuser will be too powerfull to be stopped at that point.

While gay marriage laws, for instance, do not affect me, the government establishing more and stronger precedents of legalizing morality is likely to eventually ...

Military atrocities are already tolerable - see Nagasaki/Hiroshima, Dresden, Agent Orange, etc. The only time they aren't tolerable is when a non-allied foreign country commits them. Well yeah, but your reasoning implies that those who protested Vietnam shouldn't have, because their tax ...

Idiocracy is where the dumb breed more than the smart, creating a dysgenic vortex of no escape.

So you can trace family lineage obviously.

There's also the fact that if we became immortal we'd be far less likely to have children. It's already pretty much a law of demography that countries' population growth slows and pretty much stops as they become industrialized (pretty much because of contraception). That's why the UN projects ...

If everyone only took up issues that affected them in some negative way, any military atrocities would be tolerable, any corruption would be tolerable, most rights issues would never be properly handled, and almost all issues would never be debated.

Though the very nature of government is to be a ...

Only if you live up to the cliche of a fat redneck raving about his tax dollars, as if he was any significant source of funding.

For everyone else, they can always take up issue with policies that actually affect them in some negative way.

"So if I don't accept a gay student, all students in my school must suffer. What kind of insane logic is this?"
How are they suffering?

At worst, if the school would fold because of this loss of funding, they might have to go to different schools ... exactly as the rejected kid must. The point ...

"So if I don't accept a gay student, all students in my school must suffer. What kind of insane logic is this?"

"Leftist logic, sir, leftist logic."

The Cultural Tyranny of Leftism

Energy that doesn't come from renewable sources. (Partially an affirmation of Haggis' post)
I wish this were true.

Sadly, I think we will keep on with our current system benefitting those who are already in power, based on exploitation of the resources we have.

In 100 years, I fear we will have ...

That will solve nothing. Problem with TSA (and all crooked government agencies) isn't with the institution itself, but rather with the people staffing it.

But that's just it. Competition would breed policies that would both fulfill the mission (which current policies really don't) while allowing ...